Charles Phelps Smyth ’16 *17

CHARLES PHELPS SMYTH, our Class president these last ten years, died on Mar. 18, 1990, in Bozeman, Mont. No one in the Class had achieved greater distinction in his field than he had as a professor of chemistry. He had been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1920, holding the David P. Jones Professorship. He was the author of more than 300 articles and two books, his special interest being the electrical properties of matter. In WWII he worked on the atomic bomb project, and in intelligence service followed the Army into Germany to ascertain whether the Germans had an atomic bomb, for which he received the U.S. Army Medal of Freedom. Space doesn't permit the listing of the prestigious scientific societies to which he belonged. To Emily, his devoted widow, we record our affection and admiration for their services to the Class, to Princeton, and to the nation.